Author: Gunner Quinn

00:00:00 Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty years ago, out on the prairie of the northern Great Plains, hunters sat on sagebrush covered hills, marveling seemingly endless herds of bison. For as long as Americans had known this land, these animals had existed in the tens of millions, and these hunters surely thought that this abundance would last just as long into the future. This wealth of wildlife was assumed to be infinite, here forever taken or granted. But it did end. By the late eighteen eighties, the Great American bison herd had plummeted from somewhere north of thirty million…

Orchid, a provider of FFL technology solutions, analyzed the ATF’s Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Exportation Report for 2024 (the most recent data available) and compiled a list of the industry’s top 30 domestic firearms manufacturers. These 30 are estimated to collectively be responsible for 88 percent of the firearms made that year.Other interesting findings from Orchid’s analysis include:The top three manufacturers for total firearms were still Ruger, Smith & Wesson and SIG Sauer, but Smith & Wesson moved into second ahead of SIG. Ruger was first in total firearm production for the third year in a row.The top four pistol…

Within the suppressor market, one of the most popular segments, for good reason, is that of rimfire suppressors. Not only are rimfire guns popular and used for all manner of shooting sports, they also offer an inexpensive entry point into firearms, and the same holds true for rimfire suppressors. Generally speaking, rimfire suppressors tend to be less-expensive than their centerfire counterparts, providing an entry point in the world of suppressor use for many firearm enthusiasts. Below are five new rimfire suppressors on the market today. Angstadt Arms | Vanquish 22 for the Ruger Precision RimfireBringing baffle-free suppression technology to the…

Being a good angler means finding and catching fish in a variety of conditions. From high and murky to muddy and weedy to icy and freezing cold, we find pride in adapting and overcoming what the water throws at us. No matter how good of an angler you are, there’s nothing more challenging or frustrating than trying to catch a fish in clear, low water.Whether you’re targeting trout, panfish, bass, pike, muskie, or even catfish, when clear water gets low, every species out there becomes spookier than a rabbit in a vegetable garden. This doesn’t mean you can’t catch fish…

There’s accumulating guns—and then there’s collecting. The thing that distinguishes the latter from the former is that there’s generally a theme to a collection. It’s not that one’s better than the other, and there’s often a fair bit of overlap, but collectors generally have a running list in their head of desired acquisitions; the next “Grail gun” to add to the safe, if you will. This used to be more difficult in the olden times. However, along came the various web forums, whether brand-centric, themed around a certain type of shooting sport or hunting or specific to a state or…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Who gets to be a native resident of any place is always up for debate, But for the past half century, two movements, bioregionalism and rewilding have offered a new possibility. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West becoming natives of place in the American West. We’ve all seen them everywhere in the West, those bumper stickers on the nether end of a towering ram or ford one pickup proclaiming the driver is a native. As to where the attachment applies, it’s almost always to a state Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Idaho that’s barely existed much…

00:00:11 Speaker 1: I’m in the Ozarks today and tomorrow is the opening day of the Arkansas Bear season. It’s like a holiday to me. We’re gonna be competing against the white oak acrens to kill these bears. But the day before season today, we’re gonna be making molasses with my friend Willard Belines. Hey, everybody, my name’s Klay nukemb And what you just watched was the intro to our newest film called Ozark Bear Camp with Klay Neukam. It’s the latest and Meat Eaters twelve and twenty six series brought to you by Moultrie and Onyx, And that little…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. I’m rouse Tony Peterson, and this episode is all about hanging stands in the preseason and what we often get wrong. We are all experiencing some weird form of time compression where…

The U.S. M1 bayonet is designed to fit the M1 Garand rifle which was the standard issue American infantry rifle during World War II and the Korean conflict. The M1 bayonet has a 10-inch spear-point blade that is 1 inch wide and has a tang that is around 0.25 inches thick. The blade is made of 1080 carbon steel. The grip panels are made out of black Durez or a similar plastic. The bayonet measures 14.25 inches overall. The 10-inch blade is long enough to make the bayonet somewhat awkward for everyday tasks like opening cans, prying open crates, or…

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Some of the erroneous assumptions and operating principles that Western governments of today have been utilizing in their social planning schemes are these six stupid ideas: 1. The stupid idea that people and institutions can become perfect. The perfectibility of institutions and people is contrary to all natural law and historical precedent. People are imperfect by their nature and institutions which are composed of people are imperfect. 2. The stupid idea that economic output is everything which can be expressed as a regularly reported number which can be measured, and the number…